| Appeals to the Privy Council |
Report No. 05_1731_00 |
Bennet v Gray |
Massachusetts |
| Case Name Short |
Bennet v Gray |
| Case Name Long |
Joseph Bennet and Samuel Freeth and William Walker v Benjamin Gray |
Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series |
| APC Citation | v.3 [233] p.315–316 – 8 April 1731 – entry 1 |
| PC Register Citation | George II v.2 (1 June 1729 – 16 June 1732) p.367: PC 2/91/367 |
| APC Citation | v.3 [233] p.316 – 28 April 1734 – entry 2 |
| PC Register Citation | George II v.2 (1 June 1729 – 16 June 1732) p.375–376: PC 2/91/375–376 |
| APC Citation | v.3 [233] p.316 – 11 May 1734 – entry 3 |
| PC Register Citation | George II v.2 (1 June 1729 – 16 June 1732) p.387: PC 2/91/387 |
Colonial Courts |
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Inferior Court of Common Pleas – 4 April 1729 (see Notes below) Supream Court of Judicature – Boston – second Tuesday of August 1728 |
Participants |
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Bennet, Joseph of Birmingham Freeth, Samuel of Birmingham Gold, William Gray, Benjamin of Boston (terretenant of William Gold) Walker, William, merchant, of Whitton Hall in Warwickshire |
Description |
Land in dispute (trespass and ejectment) “lying at the Southerly end of Boston known as William Golds farm,” according to the APC |
Disposition |
Not stated in Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial Series |
Notes |
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There is an error in the colonial court dates in the APC; the lower court decision is dated after its reversal. The Privy Council’s register at George II v.2 (1 June 1729 – 16 June 1732) p.375 corrects the date of the Inferior Court judgment to 4 April 1727 and calls the higher court the ‘Superior Court of Judicature’. On the action of ‘trespass and ejectment’ involved here, see Additional Research. |
References in Smith, Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Plantations |
Table of Cases (Bennett v Gray) |
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DOCUMENTATION |
Printed Cases |
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Privy Council Documents in PC 1 at The National Archives at Kew |
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